Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.
Anonymous
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.
Alan J. Perlis
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
God is a hacker, not an engineer. You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
Francis Crick
Optimization hinders evolution.
Alan J. Perlis
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis